Red Bull team boss Christian Horner has slammedꩲ the Formula 1 rule-makers describing the speeding under red flag penalty rule as ‘rubbish’ and has called for the sport to take action following Sebastian Vettel’s three-place grid drop.

Ferrari’s Vettel will go into the United States Grand Prix with a three-place grid penalty for failing to slow sufficiently under red flags durin🅘g the opening practice session. Esteban Ocon picked up the same penalty for a similar incident for Force India during practice at the Japanese🎃 round last time out, while Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo was also hit by the penalty rule at the season opener in Australia.

Horner has rea𒁃cted ang💧rily to the decision but understands why the call has been made give the previous two incidents.

“It is a rubbish rule but they have got to have consistency because otherwise it makes a little bit of a farce of all the regulations if you have a penalty for one race but not at another,” Horner told Sky Sports F1. “But it is not a good regulation.

“If a driver commits a cr📖ime like that, speeding under a red flag, the biggest thing that will hurt the driver is fining him.

“Give him a penalty, a wrap on the knuckles, a fine or something and give the money to charity. To give him a three-place penalty for – how much over the limit was he, not very much – similar to Daniel. It ef😼fects the race, effects qualifying and it is not ꦕa good penalty.”

Horner says a football-style refeꦰree call to look at incidents in isolation rather than takingꦛ into account previous penalties would be more appropriate and fears this episode is the latest example of over-regulation in F1.

“We are over-regulated as a sport as it is,” he said. “Sometimes you need a referee 🐽and you need them to stand up. Each crime is always going to be a little bit different so it is down to the referee to deal with each individual situation as it arises.

“I th🍎ink we try, through all these team manager meetings, to come up with penalties and rules for absolutely everything but every circumstance is a little bit different.”